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Forty-Niner Letters and Diaries - Nevada County Area (PH 17-2)(Undated) (35 pages)
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Letter Nes 3, contesoon four os Liva himdred Lbs of Flour and as much bazon throm ovt in one place. fnoa
wagons ary standins by the swadside, Wa lofS one of ours and picked up a better one, Mea
who loge thoir teama go on a foot, calawlating to live on thowe ahead, T sag gome man to
hod lost all thei cattle and left their wagon and load benind, exons what they garziad o.
«wo horses. They seamed well satisfied, said thay could trayel now, There bag been more i
iesa Ssiciawes in overy train I have seen, J have know three men buried ont of one train *
& Single day. This vas six mmdred niles back, Ove train have been quite healthy, Thoy
axe ell wall at this time except ons of the young Richardsons, He hag something like tha
bilious Lover, tut is better, I as convinosd that the journey ao Par has been beneticial
to ny health, I. haye not had a congh or cold since ¥ lars the states; and although she
dust is very bad may eyes bave bean stronger since F have been on the road, than they
have Yor several jeers, We have seen men who laft the states as lage as June and they give
creadful. ascounta of the cholera among the hindmost emigrants, Wa have rot geen or heard +
& Case of that disease for'thres hundesd alles, In fas} there 22 Ind little sickness oF
any iciad, Since we have been in the mountains, we are generally in stad of snow avery de
and have several times had crow to ea%. I have geen snow clone to the snad on no bighor
erowmd than the read and good graso growing in a few Paes of 1%, Vea herve the best kind of
\vater and grass hers im the momriaing, but wa have passed some placss where the grass was
searee, I gaw 2 days. back a lady from New York living here in the mountains with the IndiHer ausband was not a% koma. His nane 45 Broen and forzsliy lived in Burton, I21. He
cane to Salt Lake and from theres here, The lady said they had been Bring hers 29 memths,
Sone oF our boys sav her Musband, Ha says 26 13 making a fortune trading with the Indians
and omigrants. We are abtowl JO nites fros Fors Hall where J expeat ta leave this lettee,
i am anxious to get theugh, hoping to hear from you. This is a long journey and a long
tina Zor ma to stay from you and the children, but don't think hard, A will try te get
tack ap soon aa I can.:Nothiy g mere, but resain your deveted husband.
P.S. I saw John Mitchel on the read doing well, 0.5.5.5, GAL. Sully 11/40
Lattes No, 4
Liberty, Ellinoia Deceuber the 31, 1249
Go Sry Green B, Simpson
Dear Friends, .
i for the firat.time take the onportunity of arasing a few lines to you to tne
fora you that we are al] well at present and hope thease few lines will find you all cajoye
ing the same blessing, To Jones and Green, your families are 223 well at present and
friends go far as wa Imow. Aunts Anna Wolfe is dead, Mere, HeBride alse died, Jacek 4s
married ogain, also Jim MeKeliop end Aunt Betay, Tell Bun to call Jin daddy. I totd
Jin he mgt be good te Barbary and the children, and ba said be would, I go ocesgsionaly
%o see Barkary and inquire how she 4s getting along. She 19.doing well when I see her, YX
nak her to come and ace ua frequently ond sha comes some times and seems ag voll satisif~icd
&3 you would expect. .£ don’ see ony probability of hey marryiny, yet I have heard her say
oho though more of you than gold. To Grgen I see your funtly avery day nearly and they
aca doi: g wall, She 49 a& home protested by the sane idind and effoutionate rarenta whe
zalsed har, They take the game care of her and hsr and your little children that they use@d
%, Betaey Ig kind as any mother ts the children, Sally ia well, Tha night after she sag
Joneses etter I was dom thera and her and the ehildren-eans beck with Tm. She lecked a»
young ag the day your and her was marrisd, Green is one of the Mneost boys You evar saw.
there 1s eny probability of her marrying I on? know 4%, ATL jo&ea is free in harvest
and 4% 33 hog “illing, W, had an heir born ginoe you left and he is a boy, Wa have al
calied him John, tmt since we veseiyed a favorably letter of you we have concimied te cd
hin Jones Green. Wo always thought ve reapested you but sinse the probability is that you.